Theme: Architecture
Chicken and the egg.
A common problem inviting cognitive overload, drift, and side-effects.
It’s easy to envision final solutions and forget that even basic building blocks have tightly coupled dependencies.
Stubs and mocking help implement requirements in order of priority.
At the end of the day, we have to accept that decomposition, trust, and clear communication are critical in greenfield development.
Otherwise, we might get an ostrich. Maybe we should’ve stayed firm.